> Insurance circa £200, Road Tax c. £20, servicing, AA membership about
> £145 and repairs maybe £300 (all pa). Depreciation sunk over a car-life
> of (say) fifteen years), you're talking about an approximate figure of
> £1600 - £2000 a year, plus fuel and odd expenditure on tyres, etc.

Sounds dreadful.

> See how many days you can rent a car for that in a year.

The Rarámuri must have the lowest overall cost/mile as even energy costs are included in exhaustion hunting wearing sandals made from tires.

> PS: Where was the fairy-cycle mentioned in your post?

Now that you twisted my arm (ouch) the lowest cost/mile for those of us with bad knees is cycling.

Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Insurance circa £200, Road Tax c. £20, servicing, AA membership about
>> £145 and repairs maybe £300 (all pa). Depreciation sunk over a car-life
>> of (say) fifteen years), you're talking about an approximate figure of
>> £1600 - £2000 a year, plus fuel and odd expenditure on tyres, etc.
>
> Sounds dreadful.
>
>> See how many days you can rent a car for that in a year.
>
> The Rarámuri must have the lowest overall cost/mile as even energy costs
> are included in exhaustion hunting wearing sandals made from tires.
>
>> PS: Where was the fairy-cycle mentioned in your post?
>
> Now that you twisted my arm (ouch) the lowest cost/mile for those of us
> with bad knees is cycling.

Someone on the group is going on a 7000 mile holiday in Europe, and won’t
be going by bicycle…

--
Spike

On 21/05/2023 06:37 pm, Bret Cahill wrote:
>
>> Insurance circa £200, Road Tax c. £20, servicing, AA membership about
>> £145 and repairs maybe £300 (all pa). Depreciation sunk over a car-life
>> of (say) fifteen years), you're talking about an approximate figure of
>> £1600 - £2000 a year, plus fuel and odd expenditure on tyres, etc.
>
> Sounds dreadful.

Does it?

It sounds fine to me.
>
>> See how many days you can rent a car for that in a year.

> The Rarámuri must have the lowest overall cost/mile as even energy costs are included in exhaustion hunting wearing sandals made from tires.

....whatever that means.

>> PS: Where was the fairy-cycle mentioned in your post?

> Now that you twisted my arm (ouch) the lowest cost/mile for those of us with bad knees is cycling.

Your choice.

Far be it from me, etc...